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islamic militants threaten to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali using powers of a truce a. german coalition government files an important test just months ahead of the national calm. christian democrats lose ground to the social democrats opposition in regional elections. for its own parliamentary launch each day we report on why many in the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party to win the fight. and i welcome you watching. with me. so our top story the islamic terrorist

cell allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region almost sixty hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali these armies claimed they wanted to negotiate the release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to storm the facility causing a bloodbath more terror attacks have now been promised unless france and its campaign in west africa some of the hostage takers were militants from libya where paris helped islamised topple colonel gadhafi who had warned of an impending al-qaeda in the region. now reports were very very. you wanted peace you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people of course. but

a regional crisis probably wasn't what mr sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president can't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al-qaeda will establish its rule a lot and will return and libya will be another afghanistan terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later markets after his words could well be ringing in the areas of need what i saw was these six sacks so francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that every action has a reaction. secu so not only did the french intervention in libya not help the democratic process which is what they said they were after but if actively opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and guns

solves a lot of this new more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the a lot of weapons it's been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also by the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially all talk rating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour a situation where people have organised labor intensive extenso bribery and corruption paying off or grabs is commonplace gadhafi was bitter opponent all right it was i mean groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide the basis the first effects were immediate the hostage

crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive i'm frightened of terrorism but this is always been a problem for france whether it's chirac or sarkozy. i'm french i was born here and live here my culture is french but my origins are there and if i was there i wouldn't like another country telling me what to do. you know we're scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged that battling radical insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all this so that france can remedy the knock on effects. from its libyan intervention point. see paris well my colleague denise now we spoke with the former u.k. ambassador to algeria graeme and he says the killing of several british hostages

isn't enough to dissuade london from helping the french intervention the united kingdom will continue to support the french intervention i imagine that the british government will also want to support our friends in algeria in any way that they might ask us to. david cameron has said that the fight against islamic terrorists in north africa could take decades can britain really afford to get involved like they did in afghanistan which i should mention of course started out with george bush saying that we would be in and out. well politicians turned always to say we'll be in and then we'll be seeing mr cameron knows that this will take time i don't imagine that he is thinking of committing british ground troops to north africa but there's a lot we can do in terms of intelligence technology logistics i think it does have

to be done the question really is how can we afford not to. there was the thought that france went in because of possible uranium resources there what is britain's interests. well i think britain's interest is in having stability on the if you like the southern florida flank of nato just across the mediterranean from from western europe. i don't accept these conspiracy theories about minerals i think it's really about knowing that we have we have stable neighbors stable neighbors but at the same time britain openly backs rebels who are known to have sort of attachments to al qaeda and other is islamist groups there so where then is the consistency. sort of what rebel groups are those. in syria. yes yes well if i say read anything it was more of

a geo political in terms of security and not resources so where then why yes in syria no in syria in mali well i think it's a different story this is not. an al qaeda linked islam a stop arising in syria it's all been repeated who want a different life they want to be rid of a tyrant. in charge of them and this will solve itself apparently without any intervention from the outside i think the story in mali is completely different this is foreign intervention by the al-qaeda linked terrorists themselves this is not honest mali i'm striving to change the government well the political analyst john walker lindh says western countries support islamic when he's seen the geo political interests to do you say. i greatly enjoyed the ambassador's. discomfiture when you put in that question i mean he doesn't have an

answer and the western governments do not have an answer to the question of it which is to say why do we support islamic or islamist rebels in syria and yet send troops into crush islam it's rebels in mali there's no way of squaring the circle these are simply double standards for the by the same token why do we support last year the succession of south sudan but we suddenly send in troops to prevent the secession of north mali these are political decision we are taking political decisions on the basis of our political vision and our friends and enemies and that's the reason why we do one thing in syria and the other thing in mali and as for encouraging stability i mean that really does take the cookie to say that you know we have practically the whole of the middle east including north africa in turmoil we have supported we the west have supported the great uprisings of the

arab spring only to find that they the regimes they have produced have an important islamic element these are conundrums which the west has not solved them is not solving it is on the contrary making matters worse. german chancellor angela merkel's coalition has suffered a blow ahead of the parliamentary election later the here they've been defeated in a key regional vote losing by one seat in lower saxony this is appointing result potentially puts merkel in a vulnerable position ahead of september's general election in which she seeks to win a third term in office r.t. peter oliver now reports on the fragile support for the german leader both at home and abroad. it's the thirteenth setback in local elections that angular merkel's christian democrat party and their coalition partners the free democrats have suffered it's also more importantly the fifty the fifty states government which they've lost to the social democrats since two thousand and nine this vote in lower

saxony which is the fourth most populous state in germany it's seen very much as a bellwether of opinion and it was incredibly tight well it was by one seat and what it does mean though even by the smallest of margins the social democrats well they smell blood heading into the general election their candidate for the chancellorship steinbach said this well this shows that a change of government and power is possible piece year what's interesting when you look at this particular particular local election is the euro zone crisis really didn't come into it this was a local election where people were voting on local issues now it's in that area where mrs merkel is starting to show some weaknesses as it were and her christian democratic party and their coalition partners but she still has this personal appeal as the leader because of what she's done for the eurozone crisis but of course that isn't mirrored when you look around the rest of europe particularly in

countries like greece where we've seen her burned in effigy and even compared to adult hitler because the greek people they see angela merkel as the main person behind the austerity that they're having to live through so her popularity abroad personally isn't particularly great when it comes to the eurozone crisis however germans are happy with the way that she's managed this crisis and managed germany's economy throughout it but as i say it's going to come down to whether she can convince the german people that she's the right person to manage german interests at home as well as those abroad whether she can win not third term towards the end of this year. across the atlantic another lady is getting ready. to still with. set to deliver a speech on the next four years of his presidency we will look at whether he can live up to his promises plus hungry for profits. being blamed for forcing up

food prices for everyone else in a couple of minutes. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives. with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less a lot less human suffering. hello

welcome back with a general election looming in israel polls predict there will be little change to the makeup of the country's parliament forecasts promising the return of prime minister benjamin netanyahu his right wing likud party leaving many voters apathetic and disillusioned artie's porus leah reports. the countdown has begun but instead of scanning the papers to brush up on who's saying what in the final hours before these radios head to the polls. is searching for an apartment the twenty eight year old is desperate to move out of his parents' home but times are

tough and he blames the government right i'm not going to vote i see who are the candidates and there is no one standing who represents me or who can change the general mood in the country with them or the recent political justing that's all candidates move from one party to another in joost even more pessimism in people like musharraf who have lost trust in israeli politician is the union between bibi netanyahu and his foreign minister avigdor lieberman him to be them in government the return of leave me for my opposition leader back into the fray just a few months after announcing her time and only frustrated and already eviction where we public many israelis don't believe that the present politicians and parties. have any really new solutions to the big problems facing israel security spirit economic issues. but among all the uncertainty one thing is certain for the disenchanted voters and it can work and i also feel like the outcome is

pre-determined everyone knows not to know who is going to win for them or the apathy based on the belief that netanyahu will almost certainly when has led expects to worry about the state of his way to democracy. there are some populations designing these really society if you take a certain sort of the ultra orthodox presenters that turns out to vote is very high it's above eighty on the other hand when you look at the middle class the youth and the arabs the presenters is around sixty. and those figures only help netanyahu and his allies of course there are parties who are ready to oppose the government's policies one of their merits boasts that a vote for them is a secure vote against netanyahu and a leadership that will destroy israel first of all are is aleisha in the war will continue. there will be no solution to the palestinian problem in the economic and social gaps between rich and poor we'll get to march why they're in deeper but

merits is expected to win only around five percent of the votes in a record field of fifty four parties that are running in these elections netanyahu is party is expected to get only about a quarter of the seats in the parliament but with other political forces being shattered into rival factions this is still going to be enough for him to continue in power the coalition effort on yahoo is expected to build would have a very slim majority but it would still give him the mandate he needs to map out this country's next four years but the paradox of the selection is that the candidate sit too when is not particularly liked by most of the country policy r.t. tel aviv. and tell her its executive director of the one voice movement that is calling for a two state solution says the netanyahu government has failed to address many of the country's key problems. now finds himself leading a party of offering a very platform actually no platform at all but they have not presented a program

a party program to address a lot of the issues that are concerning israeli citizens from the left and the right and are dividing them and when you think about the prospects for this government leading policy of more settlement expansion and indeed even annexation of the occupied territories in the west bank i think that it would lead not only to a growing pressure in friction with the united states and president obama with the european union and with the palestinian population but it will also lead to a growing disappointment in the israeli public that. it is still supporting and i believe will still support. it and appalled its right to peace and security which can only be manifested and realized through the two state solution and we will be closely watching the israeli elections all day on tuesday bringing in therapy coverage as well as an in-depth exploration of the issues of israel

settlements but the twist. i'm here with some investors from england. i'm here to show you most of my poverty in this area in the north georgia. not the world the next. two state solution. is about to. go to all of us in the. barack obama is officially at the helm of the us government for another four years after being sworn in at the white house all eyes will be on the american president later on monday when he lines his second term plans in his inaugural speech about his first four years show he wasn't he railed by falling by failing to keep some of his pledges gani chickie end questions if it's a trend that is here to stay. it's generally thought that his second term six u.s. presidents on walks those handcuffs that kept them from doing great things in their

first term because they had to think about getting reelected all the time in the last four years we've heard many times president obama's hands are tied on this issue word that issue suppose this election has on tied his hands we don't have a crystal ball to tell you what he's going to do with those three presidential hands but we may already see signs of what is to come president obama steps into his second term carrying a heavy load of promises along with the pledge the threat of another devastating war ended with. four years president obama pushed to a great extent by israel as war with iraq i will take no options off the tape and i believe what i see. some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense secretary who is known to have been against a strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less warmongering towards the word but two of the country's leading middle east experts orange convinced vision i

would bet a certain amount of money we will hear the words all options are on the table come out of his come out of his mouth in addition to the point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue many of the covert programs of course or drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for. coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran john brennan has been in charge of president obama's targeted assassinations program is a point of push the notorious war on terror in a different perspective and shows that it's far from over they want wars that will not redound against them at home politically so they don't want any more body bags they don't want more american troops. killed to the extent they want to prevent that they want to have all the soldiers sitting in alexandria virginia or los

angeles or whatever and running the groans that are killing people whether it's afghanistan or yemen or iran or you know were else however over the next four years the administration's reach will extend far beyond the middle east as it is said to continue its pivot to asia as well as building a missile shield provocatively close to russia's borders last year in a hot mike moment president obama told russia's made that inventive that in his second term he'd be more flexible to discuss moscow close circuit. but it could turn out to be flexibility to words only rather than action if. russia is still opposed to it still sees it as as a symbol just going to go ahead. while president obama may have more control over foreign policy domestically there is a greater chance of his agenda getting bogged down in congress like gun control the

executive orders are useless and legislative proposals and i suspect will not pass in this country and i don't think it's in the offing anywhere in the near future because we are a culture that is very deeply. in love with our guns in the last four years congress more than was attempted to sabotage the president on key economic issues including reaching a last minute deal as the country teetered on the edge of fiscal cliff when presidents who have trouble with congress like to do international things because they have to worry about congress much less the president's actions so far have show little possibility that in the next four years he will be any more flexible on major foreign policy issues as far as the mess that could genda many doubt whether he's never ending battle with congress will allow him to move significantly beyond inspiring speeches in washington i'm going to check. as one president is welcome back another is being told to head for the exit thousands have rallied in front of

me palace in tbilisi in georgia online we'll tell you why they're telling him it's time. plus russian federal security forces have been tasked with creating a brand new system to prevent cyber crime find out more on what that will involve at r.t. dot com. good times that goldman sachs staff at the investment giant are reported to be getting a significant salary boost but a lot of that money has been made on the back of surging food prices which are leaving many around the world starving and nearly my colleague in eastern hour he spoke to artie's alexy. he's been looking into the matter. this debate has been going on for many years now but this latest controversy is definitely making this discussion even more fueled now the employees of goldman sachs investment bank are in for some happy times their salaries have reportedly been raised and almost half a million dollars worth of annual bonuses are to be paid out all because in twenty

twelve the company made about four hundred million dollars from investing its clients' money in a range of products known as soft commodities such as weed and maize to coffee and sugar but what's good for bankers is damaging the global food situation say experts and many claim major investment players are contributing to a global food emergency the united nations warned that the world could be on the brink of a major hunger crisis this year after poor harvests in the united states and ukraine food prices already surged last summer with cereals hitting a record high in september last year food cost sixteen percent higher than in twenty ten and more than twice as expensive as a decade ago even after adjusting for inflation with almost a billion people already starving such a forecast could make things catastrophic worse and the latest controversy with goldman sachs has once again we ignited the debate on what actually stands behind the hike in food prices organizations like food watch say they are not the only ones financial players around the world bear

a large part of blame by investing astronomical sums of money into foodstuffs and speculating on the prices to make big profits in the last three years alone speculators have poured in as an extra hundred billion u.s. dollars into the sector and that is expected of driving prices even higher investment and central banks deny this saying futures trading is important for farmers and that their bets have no effect yet the prices. bear scant resemblance to the natural growth in demand for food moreover they're already creating grounds for instability sparking protests and demonstrations for instance in several african countries including working fast so in senegal bakers went on strike recently because of an eighty percent increase in the price of wheat so if this trend here people will be unable to afford basic staple foods and if further harvest suffer too it's not hard to imagine the consequences for the world's hungry . now coming your way after the brightly take a closer look at the deadly virus moving down the african american community in the

u.s. . georgian president mikheil saakashvili is military police have been accused by prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government a weapon so unusual that history's great villains wouldn't even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil them and blackmail them the gay spies would tempt men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is

truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck could have a thing or two to learn from president saakashvili but that's just my opinion. many in the black community have long memories and today have a clear distrust for government run health agencies part of what drives each of you know community to his or his torkel perspective with disenfranchisement to skiing is very very much aware of the knife in our communities we still have many communities are we talking about and this is a conspiracy the government wanted to kill us off so maybe we still have people who still have that mindset people don't like to say. that

a government would make an effort to destroy people but black people have had a history. of tusky syphilis experience that was carried on by the federal government for thirty years one thousand nine hundred to one thousand nine hundred seventy two and people said at that time this is a way to get rid of the black population so that's horrible to have to think about . and that kind of planning that we have an entire museum in washington do see called a holocaust memorial museum which ag maintain is the most importantly museum in the united states that everybody should go to that museum because it's not just about the death. six million people. it's about a government of intelligent people.